Stabilization of parametric active contours using a tangential redistribution term

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1859-1872

  Srikrishnan, V ^a   Chaudhuri, Subhais ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Parametric active contours; Stable contour evolution; Tangential redistribution of curve points

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; CURVE EVOLUTION; CURVE POINTS; PARAMETRIC ACTIVE CONTOURS; PARAMETRIZATIONS; SEGMENTATION AND TRACKING; STABLE CONTOUR EVOLUTION; TANGENTIAL FORCE; TANGENTIAL REDISTRIBUTION OF CURVE POINTS;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 68149169976     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2009.2021310     Document Type: Article

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